• Lonely creator. The creator is tired of solitude and therefore inaugurates the creation. A73
• New creation shouted away. It is unstable and therefore unsatisfactory. A636
• Moon made from shining fragments. A cap is opened and shining things fall out. Children pick them up and put them into a box. At the end of the month the box is full. The full moon shines when all the fragments are gathered together. A742
• Man in the moon. A man is said to be seen in the moon. Various explanations are given as to how he came to be there. A751
• Man in moon is person thrown or sent there as punishment. A751.1
• Man in moon is put there as punishment for cursing God. A751.1.2
• Man in moon banished there for stealing bundle of thorns. A751.1.4
• Man in moon a frog which has jumped into person's face and remains there. A751.3.1
• Man in the moon: dung (ashes) on moon's face smeared there by sun. A751.5.2
• Spots on moon a banyan tree planted there by creator to diminish its light. A751.6.1
• Girl with tree carried to moon and is seen there. A751.8.5
• Moon has wooden weapons, therefore vulnerable. A759.1
• Raft in primeval sea. Creator is on the raft and there creates the earth. (Cf. A812.) A813
• Why there is no mist on a certain river: fanned away with a pair of eagle's wings. A937
• Origin of sacred post (placed there by ancestral culture hero). A992.1
• Why there are one-eyed women. A1316.3.2
• Why women keep washing themselves. St. Andrew, sent to get salt to keep people clean, gets drunk and forgets. There is only enough for men. A1372.10
• Gull a transformed ravished maiden. While he is sleeping, the maiden the hero has stolen is ravished by another man. The hero thereupon turns her into a gull. (Cf. A1710.) A1945.2
• Insects from devil's post-hole. Devil is given enough land to dig a post-hole. From this come all kinds of insects. To stop them a burning log is put in the hole. Insects therefore hate smoke. A2004
• Tortoise hurled on rock: half falls on land, half in water. Therefore amphibious. A2214.5

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